Elizabethtown College’s Tempest Theatre will present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare for its spring production. The play will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on March 14,15, 20, 21, and 22, and at 3 p.m. on March 16 in the Tempest Theatre, located in the Baugher Student Center (BSC).
Tickets, which are $8 for students, alumni, and faculty and $10 for general admission, are available for purchase at the door or online. This event is open to the public. Purchase tickets.
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream is really special to the College because it is not only such a fun play, but it is a celebration of theatre on campus,” Assistant Director Madison Stewart said. “Elizabethtown College has previously put on the production back in April 1989, so to be able to recreate the show with a new vision for Etown’s 125th anniversary is special for the department.”
The department used an expressionist color palette to show contrast between fairies and humans in the play, which is a humorous take on love conflict.
A timeless classic, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” follows four young Athenians who run away to the forest only to be intertwined in the mischief of fairies. Puck, a trouble-making fairy, intervenes with the four humans with love potions and pranks.
Stewart will work with Director Griffin Yenya on the show. Yenya has directed spring productions for the Tempest Theatre since 2023 and was a guest actor in the 2022 spring production.
“I hope that this show is something that the audience can really come to love and enjoy,” Stewart said. “Even though it is a Shakespeare classic, it truly is a timeless play that anyone can appreciate. Our actors and crew have worked hard to make sure that even if the audience can’t understand the old English, the audience can still understand the emotions and messages that the company is trying to convey.”
